INTERACTIVE COURSE

Recursion for Coding Interviews in C++

Intermediate

38 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

AI Explanations

AI Mock Interview

28 Playgrounds

6 Challenges

5 Quizzes

392 Illustrations

Course Overview

If you’ve ever struggled with solving coding problems using recursion, or if you’ve just got an interview coming up and want to brush up on your knowledge, you’ll definitely find this course helpful. You’ll start with the basics of what recursion is and why it’s important before diving into what it looks like in practice. You’ll see how recursion can help you solve a variety of different math, string, and data structure problems, using interactive code playgrounds you can execute directly in your browser....Show More

Course Content

Recursion Fundamentals

What is Recursion?

Direct vs. Indirect Recursion

Advantages and Disadvantages

Recursion vs. Iteration

Changing Iterative Code to Recursive

Recursion with Numbers

Computing Factorials Sum of Integers from 1 to n Modulo Using Recursion Computing Fibonacci Sequence Challenge 1: Find the greatest common divisor Solution Review 1: Find the Greatest Common Divisor Challenge 2: Check for Prime Number Solution Review 2: Check for Prime Number Quick Quiz on Recursion with Numbers!

Recursion With Strings

Reversing a String Removing Spaces in a String Removing Duplicates in a String Merging Strings in Alphabetic Order Challenge 1: Let's find the total number of vowels Solution Review 1: Let's Find the Total Number of Vowels Challenge 2: Is this String a Palindrome?Solution Review 2: Is this String a Palindrome?Quick Quiz on Recursion with Strings!

Recursion With Arrays

Find the First Occurrence of a Number in an Array Count the Number of Occurrences of a Number in an Array Replacing each Negative Integer with 0 in an Array Invert the Position of Elements in an Array Challenge 1 : Find if the Array is a Palindrome Solution Review 1: Find if the Array is a Palindrome Challenge 2: Sort an Array Solution Review 2: Sort an Array Quick Quiz on Recursion with Arrays!

Recursion with Data Structures

Print a Reversed Linked List Sum Numbers in a Linked List Insert Values in a Binary Search Tree Depth First Search in Graphs Topological Sort in Graphs Quick Quiz on Recursion with Data Structures!

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